Blood Type Diet

Rafaela de Figueiredo
Mr. Wilkinson
MYP Biology
August 30, 2011

Blood Type Diet

This article is about a new research, which implies that every type of blood has a different type of diet. For example people that has blood type "O" should eat things that will make them healthier like meat. They are different from people with type “A” that should eat more beans and vegetables etc. It doesn’t mean that if a person with blood type "O" eats chicken they are going to die. It just says that there are different types of food that are more helpful to them then it is to others. The man who started this research was Dr. Peter DÁdamo, he discovered that for the most part our immune systems protect you from lectins. “Ninety-five percent of the lectins you absorb from your typical diets are sloughed off by the body. At least five percent of the lectins you eat are filtered into the bloodstream and different reactions in different organs.” (Michael Lam - a specialist in Preventive and Anti-Aging Medicine.) Dr. Peter DÁdamo started this in 1980, it was actually his father’s research and after his father died he became a naturopathic physician, and continued the research. He also wrote a book called "Eat Right 4 Your Type." to show his work. "So, when you eat a food containing protein lectins that are incompatible with your blood type antigen, the lectins target an organ or bodily system and begin to agglutinate blood cells in that area." (Michael Lam - specialist in Preventive and Anti-Aging Medicine)

It might be crazy when you think about it but maybe there might be some connection to what happens in our DNA. His work wasn’t confirmed yet and if it is true everyone in the world should be following their type of blood to what they eat. People would be healthier. I was interested on this article because someone had told me about this new diet but I didn’t really know what it was about. I hope they make this research more elaborate so people could actually follow this. This relates to me because I want to be a healthier person. I see lots of people not eating any kind of vegetable or anything that is healthy. When I go to the cantine I usually see people asking for French fries and pasta every day.

The areas of interaction that can be used to view this article would be "Health and Social Education" and/or "Community and Service" I think it would be health and social education because well, we are trying to get healthier and lots of people around the world don’t know how to eat. It social education they are not educated to eat certain things and it is also kind of community and service because we are all trying to help people. About one-third of U.S. adults are obese and approximately 12.5 million of them are children and adolescents so, they have to learn how to eat, be healthy not have issues and sicknesses and health problem. We don’t want that for us.

http://www.drlam.com/blood_type_diet/print/blood_o.htm